Punjab Kings vs Chennai Super Kings
Blog Highlights @ https://youtu.be/DK5DZVoSNaA
38th Match:
The match between PBKS and CSK is the thirty-eighth meeting of the IPL 2022, which is going to be played at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on April 25th 2022.
PBKS vs CSK History:
The teams competed against each other 27 times, till date. Out of them, PBKS won 11 times including one super over victory in a tied game, whereas CSK won 16 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results of PBKS against CSK are WWLLL.
PBKS Home:
The teams competed 6 times at the home ground of PBKS. The home team won thrice and lost thrice, as well.
Last 5 (completed) match results of PBKS against CSK are WWLLW.
CSK Home:
The teams faced each other 6 times at the home ground of CSK. The host won 4 times. On the other hand, the visitors won just twice including a one over eliminator victory in a tied game.
Last 5 (completed) match results of CSK against PBKS are WWWLL*.
Neutral Venue:
The teams met 15 times at the neutral venue. PBKS won 6 times, whereas CSK won 9 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results of PBKS against CSK are WWLLL.
Teams and Ranks:
Punjab Kings:
The team completed 216 games, out of them the team won 101 times and lost 115 times.
The team is at the eighth place (currently) in the table (IPL 2022) with 6 points (in total), victory will bring the team to the fifth or sixth place with 8 points (in total) and the defeat will place the team to the ninth position with 6 points (in total).
Last 5 (completed) match results of PBKS are LLWLW.
Chennai Super Kings:
The team completed 228 games, out of them the team won 134 times and lost 91 times with 3 without any result (No Result).
The team is at the ninth place (currently) in the table (IPL 2022) with 4 points (in total), victory will help the team to be in any of the sixth to eighth place with 6 points (in total) and the defeat will place the team at the same (ninth) position with 4 points (in total).
Last 5 (completed) match results of CSK are WLWLL.
Weather:
Weather forecast for Mumbai shows the weather would be mostly clear in the beginning of the game and then pretty clear till the end of the match. The precipitation percentage would be between 1% to 4% as of now, so there would be extremely less chances of rain during the match. The temperature would be between 31 to 33 Celsius. The wind would be between 6 to 16 km/h. The speed of wind would fluctuate and the temperature would decrease gradually.
Toss and Pitch (Record of IPL):
Teams chose to bat first after winning the toss, which happened 23 times in 91 games. The selection slightly favored the teams, as the team won 12 times including a victory in a tied game and lost 11 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, when the team chose to bat first, are WW*LLW.
The teams never lost a game after choosing to bat first since 2017.
On the other hand, the team chose to field first after winning the toss, won 36 times and lost 32 times, though the teams lost the match in super over twice.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, when the team chose to field first, are LLLLW.
The first batting team won the matches 44 times including a (1) victory in a tied match. Whereas, the teams, who batted second, won 47 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, while the team bat first, are WWWWL.
Over all, the teams which won the toss, won the matches 48 times including a tied outing and lost 43 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results at the venue, while winning the toss, are LLLLW.
PBKS:
The team won the toss 4 times in 15 played games. The team is still searching for the first win after winning the toss.
Last 5 (completed) match results of the PBKS at the venue, while winning the toss, are LLLL -.
Last 5 (completed) match results of the PBKS at the venue, while losing the toss, are LLLWL.
CSK:
The team won the toss 10 times in 20 played games. Out of them, the team won 7 times and lost 3 times.
Last 5 (completed) match results of the CSK at the venue, while winning the toss, are WWLWW.
The team never lost a game after winning the toss since 2019.
Last 5 (completed) match results of the CSK at the venue, while losing the toss, are LLLWL.
Score:
The lowest successful defended total was 118 runs in 2018. On the other hand, Highest successful chase is 198 runs in 2019 at the ground.
The first inning lowest total was 67 runs in 2008, and the highest total was 235 runs in 2015. For the second inning, the lowest total was 79 runs (completed innings) in 2013, whereas the highest was 223 runs in 2017.
The batting average of the first innings is 27.53 and 25.17 is for the second innings.
T20 History Between the Teams at the Venue:
The teams faced each other thrice at the venue. PBKS won once and CSK won twice.
Last 5 (completed) match results of PBKS against CSK at the venue are LWL – -.
Teams’ T20 History at the Venue:
PBKS:
The team had a very poor record at the venue, as the team won 6 times and lost 9 times in 15 outings.
Last 5 (completed) match results of PBKS at the venue are LLLWL.
CSK:
The team had a good record at the venue, as the team won 11 times and lost 9 times in 20 outings.
Last 5 (completed) match results of CSK at the venue are LWWWW.
Tentative XI for both the Teams:
Punjab Kings:
The team would like to go with B. Rajapaksa in place of J. Bairstow and O. Smith in place of N. Ellis.
Punjab Kings Eleven: M. Agarwal, S. Dhawan, B. Rajapaksa, L. Livingstone, J. Sharma, S. Khan, O. Smith, K. Rabada, R. Chahar, V. Arora, A. Singh
Chennai Super Kings:
The team would like to go with a winning combination.
Chennai Super Kings Eleven: R. Gaikwad, R. Uthappa, A. Rayudu, S. Dube, MS. Dhoni, R. Jadeja, D. Bravo, M. Santner, D. Pretorius, M. Theekshana, M. Choudhary
*Notes: the result of the most recent match is at the left. *Notes: “*” means the match was tied but the match was resulted through one over eliminator. *Notes: Images were taken from Google Search. *Notes: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/ipl/top-stories/ipl-2022-csk-vs-pbks-chennai-super-kings-eye-improved-show-against-punjab-kings/articleshow/90607132.cms